Birthing Spirit

I’ve been doing a little shuffling of info around the blog and there is now no home for my Wise Women list, so I thought I would post it until I know what to do with it.

WISE WOMEN

• Dr Sarah Buckley
• Heather Bruce
• Henci Goer
• Jeannine Parvati Baker
• Sara Wickham & Lorna Davies
• Susun Weed
• Sheila Kitzinger
• Marina Alzugaray

I have been busy settling back into Sydney and have started practicing Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine from The Ambaa Tree Natural Health Centre in Frenchs Forest.  I am specialising in pre-conception, pregnancy, birth and beyond and will soon be offering the calmbirth® preparation course which I am so excited about.

My lovely friend Kate has supplied me with a list of great parenting resources which are below. If you have any other suggestions please leave them in the comments.

Australian Association for Infant Mental Health Inc:

• Position Statement 1: Controlled Crying
• Position Statement 2: Responding to infant cues

From Robin Grille’s Website:

• What your child remembers: new discoveries about early memory and how it effects us
• Good children at what price?: the secret cost of shame

Books

• Helping your baby to sleep: Why gentle techniques work best - Annie Gethan and Beth MacGregor
  
• Why love matters: How affection shapes a baby’s brain – Sue Gerhardt
• Sleeping like a baby: 100 ways to calm the crying and other books by Pinky McKay
• Nighttime parenting: How to get your Baby and Child to Sleep and other books by Dr William Sears
• No-cry sleep solutions for Babies & No-cry sleep solutions for Toddlers and other books by Elizabeth Pantly
• Heart to Heart Parenting – Robin Grille

Articles

• 15 ways to help your baby sleep – Pinky Mckay
• Parenting, Nighttime and Sleep – Kellymom
• Cluster Feedings and Fussy evenings – Kellymom
• FAQ about co-sleeping
• 10 reasons to sleep next to your child at night

Research

• Infant emotional and cortisol responses to goal blockage – Lewis M and Ramsay D
• Why babies should never sleep alone: a review of the co-sleeping controversy in relation to SIDS, bedsharing and breastfeeding – James J McKenna* and Thomas McDade

*James McKenna is the world’s number one sleep expert – University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, IN 46556, USA.  Mother-Baby Behavioural Sleep Laboratory

Support Networks

• Natural Parenting
• Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children
• Sydney Natural Parenting – Playgroups link
• Natural Parenting Melbourne Inc – playgroups